A Quiet Death
1986 · 88 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 59 VOTES · DIR. Frida Liappa
Overview
Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
Dialogue Timeline — 456 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:22 IT WAS A QUIET DEATH
00:04:18 Say it.
00:08:27 And that you die actually.
00:10:19 Also I don't know how to stop you.
00:12:29 The swallows are now...
00:14:58 At different periods, he used to love different parts of his body.
00:18:36 I know about him, he wishes I'd been born a boy.
00:20:05 It wasn't me.
00:22:08 ...now.
00:29:12 I want to be madly in love with him.
00:30:42 Nobody can.
00:34:20 Will you get dressed?
00:40:41 I'm alright.
00:44:29 Are there only incidents without an end or a beginning?
00:48:33 And every time she found us both here waiting for her.
00:50:10 and stuttering...
00:54:14 Grandpa was born so as to die along with the century.
00:55:18 Without birth.
00:56:16 and I cannot wake up.
00:57:12 Memory is inhabited by children.
00:58:26 He's not breathing now.
01:04:08 He's breathing, breathing.
01:12:55 Now how could I pass through?
01:13:59 Then suddenly...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed456
Dialogue density5.2 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line01:13:59
Production Record
DirectorFrida Liappa
LanguageEL
IMDb votes59